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Sharmila Kuthunur

YOU WONT BELIEVE: India aims to achieve debris free space missions by 2030 8a6ed7dd 7aeb 4c5c a995 ff16fea0ccbd - What They Never Told You

Artist's illustration of space junk orbiting Earth.

In late March, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that one of its satellite missions "practically left zero debris in orbit" after a spent rocket stage was lowered to burn up in Earth's atmosphere during re-entry. 

Similar deorbiting techniques will be used to make future missions "debris-free" by the end of this decade, ISRO Chairman S. Somanath said last week.

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